Imagine Flint Master Plan recognized for Outreach
The Imagine Flint Master Planning Process was awarded the 2014 Planning Excellence Award for Public Outreach by the Michigan Association of Planning!
Outreach and community engagement served as the foundation for the Imagine Flint planning process. Over 5,000 Flint residents and roughly 6,000 community members attended one of over 300 master plan events. Some key highlights of Imagine Flint outreach are below:
- 200+ meetings conducted – over 2,500 attended
- 30 Do-it-Yourself workshops completed – 500 individuals participated
- 1,700 visitors in the Imagine Flint project studio
- 500+ attended Community Vision & Goals workshop
- 350+ attended (2) Land Use Workshops
- 210 individuals attended Sub-Area workshops
- 9 Ward Input Sessions were held – 300 participants
- Over 1,000 monthly “hits” on imagineflint.com
- 150 surveys completed
- Over 750 Facebook “likes”
You can view a map which details the outreach meetings completed during the planning process in the project website Map Gallery.
In addition to the award, the Imagine Flint planning process was added to The Michigan Municipal League’s Civic Engagement Best Practices guidebook! Using the success of our project, the booklet advises readers to learn from Imagine Flint by building “a diverse team of residents and community stakeholders to guide engagement.” See the guidebook here.
ILAPA 2014 Conference and the APA 2015 Conference in Seattle
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our Firm’s sessions at the Illinois APA 2014 Conference in Evanston, October 1-3. We are always happy to have the opportunity to chat with our colleagues about the exciting and important planning that is taking place throughout the state. We appreciate the opportunity to share what the HLA Team has been up to and highlight the important work our client communities have undertaken.
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